Well . . . Apart from Applejack, on the computers that run Mac OS 10 I have, either a second partition (wife's G4 iBook, my PPC Mac Mini) or another HD with an OS on it (my G4 Windtunnel has 4 HDs).
http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ apropos de quoi je voudrais to point out that 'Cider' in the part of the world where my Mother comes from (Somerset/Dorset, England) contains about 12% alcohol, plus an extremely large proportion of fusel oils, and is exactly what North Americans call "Applejack'. Unfortunately the word 'Cider' has been debased, in both the American Colonies and Bulgaria to mean either Apple juice, or Apple flavoured fizzo. While I am on the topic of the American Colonies, I see that the Hanoverian usurper is currently visiting the Head of the Colonial Rebels in the said Colonies. I, as a good Scot, remain loyal to my sovereign, Francis II: http://www.defendersofscotland.org/monarch.htm What I would say in favour of Applejack is that most of my crashes (about 1 a week with 10.4.x) a choice of Number 5 (cleans out VM) does the trick ()% of the time and takes about 1 minute: so: reboot into Cmd-line = 2 mins Applejack #4 = 1 min reboot = 2 mins total = 5 mins CF... other HD/partition/boot CD: reboot = 2 mins hanging around while Disk Utility "sees" the HDs = 10 - 25 minutes Disk Utility "struts its funky stuff" = 10 - 25 minutes reboot 2 mins NO CONTEST Of course, if you want to get on with the work a quick reboot from another partition/HD with all the Prefs, Plug-in and so forth = 2 mins BUT you are still left with the need to sort out the problematic initial boot HD/Part. or, as a friend of mine puts it "to DeF**k the bl**dy thing" - which, on a daft Sunday morning (say about 5 am) is, albeit, very rude, almost exactly how I feel. [And before you rush to say it, 5 repetitions of one's Gayatri Mantra, while possibly appeasing Indra and various other capricious divine entities, does not seem to speed up the time taken sorting out one's computer!]. Should anyone reading this message decide that parts of it are quite mad; they are right - Richmond is having a lot of fun: Your part in the fun is to work out which parts are serious, and which parts are a tremendous leg-pull. sincerely, Richmond Mathewson ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
